This weekend, Saturday, February 16th at 7:30 pm, a new Holy Week Music Concert will take place at the Capitol Theater in Cieza, performed by the Ogijares Symphonic Band from Granada.
The Ogíjares Symphonic Band of Granada covers the entire arc
wind and percussion instruments with support from double basses and
cellos, forming a symphonic ensemble. The Symphony Orchestra
It was launched in 1993 by the Ogíjares City Council and
It has a consolidated track record focused on great dynamism
at musical events throughout the year.
He has recorded two albums in addition to dozens of live performances.
edited. Taking care of its image and advertising, it has a website and a prominent
online presence with over a million views and plays of their
pages, videos and recordings, and an online store for its own products.
Since its founding, the BSMO® has fostered a powerful music culture
permeating broad social and cultural groups in Ogíjares and Granada
capital, in educational, cultural and religious centers. Ogíjares has a
School of Music and Dance approved by the Junta de Andalucía and Grado
Elementary Music School, with more than 600 students in almost thirty
teachings, being one of the main educational centers of this kind in
the province. In 2012, BSMO® won first prize in the highest category
category of the Granada Provincial Music Band Competition that
Organized by the Provincial Council together with the Granada Federation of Bands.
Seasonal concerts, participation in competitions, events and celebrations
All types and cycles of religious music are already established in the scene
musical groups from the Granada metropolitan area. In total there are around thirty.
performances by this Symphony Orchestra each year, with a roster of around 100
musicians, cultivating a varied and innovative repertoire in eastern Andalusia.
Its repertoire includes important previously unreleased works and premieres in the
Andalusian community of complex and peculiar scores.
Dozens of compositions premiered by the BSMO® have originated from it.
band, which have sprouted thanks to the composers themselves who exist in
the gang or the links that the gang creates throughout national and international territory.
Among their own repertoire, the compositions related to religious brotherhoods stand out.
by Víctor Manuel Ferrer, the pasodobles and Christian marches of Luis Castelló,
or the suites and symphonic poems of Manuel Castelló.
In its recent history, contemporary works for band stand out, such as
Desert Storm or Joan of Arc by Ferrán, Noah's Ark and
Navarro's Liberators, Reed's Armenian Dances, and a wide repertoire
of works such as Chess, Alternances, Persis, Pilatus or Portraits of Spain.
The repertoire is completed with adaptations of orchestral classics for
band, highlighting Khachaturian's Spartacus Suite, Steel Foundry by
Mossolov, Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite, Mussogsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
or Mahler's Titan, as well as Hungarian Dances, Light Cavalry, Pomps
and Circumstance, Overture 1812, and a long etcetera that could be extended to a
prominent cultivation of national classical music and zarzuela.
The Band pays special attention to Processional Music, with a Cycle
of concerts throughout the pre-Lent and Lent period that is ending
Traditionally on Passion Saturday. It consolidates its presence in the capital.
Granada with three important processional accompaniments and crosses the
borders towards the provinces of Seville and Malaga.
Between 2012 and 2014 it consolidated its position with a workforce exceeding 100
staff members and a very complete range of instruments with the reinforcement
of the horn, bassoon, and cello string sections. The band is introduced with
strength in Granada's Holy Week, contributing its unique and applauded
A symphonic view of religious music, participating in
prominent processions in the capital and an intense concert series
during Lent. At the same time, it begins to develop an important series of
international musical exchanges, such as those between the USA and Germany,
This last country being the destination of his first Central European tour in the summer of
2011. In 2013 he planned his second major international music tour, from
professional character alongside the ENARMONÍA® project, in China.
The BSMO in concert is configured as a solid formation that covers
virtually the entire range of woodwind and brass instruments, with
string section, cellos and double basses, which characterizes this type of
formations and a percussion section of variable deployment depending on the
program, which impresses with its spectacular equipment and excellent execution.
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